Hailing from New Zealand, Kerretta is comprised of three musicians who want to pummel you with something that could best be described as anti-music. For fans of prog and the more experimental side of things — and probably anyone fed up with the resurgence of redundant, retro rock recycling — it could be just what the Pro Tools-addled, over-saturated music world probably needs right now.

This is a frenetic and dissonant tone, built in thick, concrete layers of sound; don’t think Beatles producer Phil Spector so much as more Porcupine Tree and Isis. They’re almost like a counterpart to Japan’s Mono, whose melodies tend towards the more symphonic. Thoughtful, but in a crushing sort of way — so much so that Greg Burgess of Allegaeon has praised the band’s ambient, thoughtful melodies. Yeah, it’s proggy, strange and somewhat schizophrenic, but Kerretta manages to wander without being meandering, and experiment without being careless of the listener. Grand and epic in its own way.